[Distutils] bdist_rpm and bdist on x86-64

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Jeremy Sanders wrote:
> setup.py bdist and bdist_rpm appear to fail on my x86-64 machine running 
> Fedora Core 2.
> 
> ...
> running build_scripts
> creating build/scripts-2.3
> copying and adjusting scripts/veusz -> build/scripts-2.3
> copying and adjusting scripts/veusz_listen -> build/scripts-2.3
> changing mode of build/scripts-2.3/veusz from 664 to 775
> changing mode of build/scripts-2.3/veusz_listen from 664 to 775
> installing to build/bdist.linux-x86_64/dumb
> running install
> error: invalid Python installation: unable to open 
> /usr/lib/python2.3/config/Makefile (No such file or directory)
> 
> It appears that distutils is looking in
>  /usr/lib/python2.3/config
> rather than
>  /usr/lib64/python2.3/config
> 
> I haven't been able to easily locate where it's going wrong. Any ideas??

Check the Makefile you Python version has installed in
lib/pythonX.X/config/Makefile

distutils reads the specs from that file.

> I'm using the distutils from Python-2.4.1 on Python-2.3.3 (64 bit).

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